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POCKET CHECK AND BANK BOOK.

No. 482,543. Patented Sept. 13, 1892.

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LEWIS O. BUTLER, OF EST BAY CITY, AND HENRY R. OHOPE, OF SAGI- NAVV, MICHIGAN; SAID OHOPE ASSIGNOR TO SAID BUTLER.

POCKET CHECK AND BANK BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,543, dated September 1 3, 1892.

Application filed March 20, 1891. Renewed June 20,1892. Serial No. 437,345. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, Lewis G. BUTLER, residing at West Bay City, in the county of Bay, and HENRY R. CHOPE, residing at Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw, State of Michigan, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Check and Bank Books; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to check-books and deposit-books used in banks, and is a combination of the two in convenient form and cover adapted to be carried in the pocket. I-Ieretofore it has been common for a person doing buiness with a bank to have. a deposit or pass book, in which the amount of his de posit is entered and, when desired, the amount of his withdrawal, and also a check-book, with stubs for each check, for the purpose of memorandum of amount of each check, date, name, &c. We combine these books, with other conveniences, in our pocket check and bank book, as herein described.

Figure 1 is a check and balance sheet. Fig. 2 is a depositors sheet or pass-book. Fig. 4 is the back of the check and balance sheet, showing memorandum for filing away when the sheet is removed from the book. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the complete pocket check and bank book. Fig. 5 shows a pocket for holding loose checks. Fig. 6 is the back part of 1 in Fig. 5.

1 in Fig. 5 is one page of a memorandumsheet bound with the cover and may be made of heavy paper, on which may be pasted, as shown, a calendar, an interest-tablet, or other memorandum. The back of 1, as shown in Fig. 6, is also for memoranda.

D is a memoranda for papers left at bank.

\Ve do not wish to be confined to any special memoranda or form of ruling, as that may be left to the taste or necessity of the user or the bank. The check and balance sheet E we rule as may be desired, having columns for the number of checks, dates, amounts,

name of payee, remarks, amount on deposit, and column for balance. The deposit-sheet F we rule to correspond to an ordinary bank deposit-book. The sheets E and F we told once and place within the cover and hold them in position by an elastic band over the back of the book and the fold of the sheet. WVhen the sheets are full, remove them and insert blank ones again under the rubber band.

The pocket B is formed on the inside of one of the covers in the usual way. On the pocket We have the erasive tablet. The pocket is for the purpose of holding loose checks. It may also answer the purpose of a pocket-book to some extent. The erasive tablet is very convenient for figuring interest, time, &c., from the calendar and interest-table on page one. The cover, being separate and distinct from the different forms it is intended to hold, it will last a long time.

The use of the book will effect a great saving to banks in printing and stationery and be a convenience to the banks customer, for he will have but one'book to carry instead of two, and the removable leaves are much more convenient for filing than the check-book stubs.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

A pocket check and bank book provided with a pocket on inside of one of the covers adapted to receive independent checks, and an erasive tablet and one or more memorandum-sheets bound together with the cover and a removable check-memorandum sheet and a removable bank-deposit and balance sheet, substantially as described, and as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

LEIVIS O. BUTLER. HENRY R. GHOP'E.

Witnesses as to the signature of Lewis 0. Butler:

E. W. IRWIN, NANA E. IRWIN.

IVitnesses as to the signature of Henry R.

Ohope: .A. H. SWARTHOUT, S. O. SCHMALIE. 

